Contrasting Ridges in Virginia

Despite being quite close to each other, two mountain ridges in western Virginia have very different origins.

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ASTER GDM2 terrain data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published March 15, 2017
Data acquired October 21, 2013

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Terra > ASTER

Collection:

U.S. National Parks